Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students interviewed last night on the steps of Apley sounded more than content with their new home...
...evening the Chechen delegation walked out of the Russia-Chechnya peace conference in protest, an event the Tsibliyevs might have seen on the news had their television survived the deluge in their living room. But none of this mattered to Larissa Tsibliyev. As she slipped into unconsciousness, she was content simply to note that her husband was finally sipping...
...network that was a laughing stock, and moved it to the top of the prime-time heap, by programming such shows as "L.A. Law" and "The Cosby Show." In March of this year, Tartikoff moved to the Internet and America Online to help develop the service's entertainment content. "I met with him a couple of months ago and, although thin, he seemed on the way to recovery," says TIME Media Writer Richard Zoglin. "He had a lot of projects in the works, from cable, movies and AOL, and he seemed really focused on moving ahead...
...Seven years ago, it launched an ambitious nutritional-labeling program that would have netted as much as $600,000 per endorsement of commercial products, depending on market share. Like the A.M.A., the heart association had a public-spirited goal: it wanted the labeling to help consumers understand the nutritional content of the foods they bought. But the Food and Drug Administration objected, and the A.H.A. eventually dropped the program--though a few years later the FDA itself started requiring more explicit food labels. (The A.H.A. has since instituted a more modest "food certification" program...
...middle-class narcissism, and though divorce rates have actually plateaued, the siren song of personal liberation sounds as sweet as ever. Pollitt is contemptuous of the notion. She says, "The picture is that people are going along married and in a state of, if not ecstasy, then reasonable content. And then somebody decides to be selfish, frivolous and pleasure seeking...